I agree on Ryan. I thought it was well done and I found several parts of it extremely suspensful, like facing the horrors of the German machine gun, letting the captured German soldier go only to have him come back and wreak deadly havoc on the heros. Things like that.
Besides the beach scene, the hand-to-hand knife fight had an impact on most people I know who saw it.
And the way they did the flashback and such of the WWII vet was well done.
The movie wasn’t perfect. But it should have won best picture that year.
“Shakespeare in Love”? Really?